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Hi today I am sharing the craft creations we made with Ruth's kits.  These were so fun.  The card above I gave to a friend for her birthday on the weekend.  Yes, she loved it as too did another friend who had to take a photo.  I have made one of these twisted ribbon roses before but with a circle piece of card stock covered in double sided tape.  I found the ribbon didn't stick too well.  However, Ruth gave us these large sticky dots and the ribbon stuck very well to them.  I have just messaged her to find out where she got them from.  Hope to return and let you know. Second project was this very handy calendar.  Aren't the papers just lovely.  This closes with a magnet which was so thin that you can't even feel the bump under the patterned paper but so strong.  Another question for Ruth was where she bought these magnets from. The inside of the little calendar. Remember you can see the other ladies take on th...

Not quite sure what happened after Wednesday last week.  Although there was finishing off the painting of the two roller doors on the shed, grocery shopping, visiting Mum and Dad, catching up with  three friends at movies and coffee (About Time...is a really nice movie), daughter got a casual job - Yay!  Then I filled the gaps with normal routine stuff. :-) So Monday again and today I am going to share the items I made with Mandy's kits at our Craftmad Meet Up .  Mandy is the originator of Craftmad Forum and she also owns Blue Edge Crafts and Sticker Store . I didn't realise how busy Mandy had kept us until putting up all these photos.  The first project is a box we made from scratch.  We had to glue up all the sides and reinforce them with paper.  It has turned out to be very solid and sitting pride of place on my craft cupboard. The sides I had another play with Tracey's Tim Holtz Distress Inks and, I think, did a pretty good job m...

Today I have the creations I made with Tracey's kits at the Craftmad Meet Up .  This is not normally my style but I had a ball playing with all the inks and UTEE.  Tracey is a avid Tim Holtz fan and has been lucky enough to attend one of his classes and owns lots of his inks.  Best bit is she shared the Distress Inks with us.  I have only seen people using the Distress Inks on different blogs so it was nice to have a play and they are definitely fun.  We started with a Kraft tag above which we used some metallic ink on.  Then attached a smaller manilla tag which was covered in printed tissue paper, a border die was used on the right hand side and we used a couple colours of distress inks.  Then we embellished with flowers, bling, a piece of paper which we distressed the edges and curled a corner and a butterfly to which more ink was added.  I love the end result. Another down and dirty project.  We started with the smallest canvas...

Today I want to share the creations I made with Kerry's kits at the Craftmad Meet Up.  You can find Kerry here at Kerry's Place to Escape.   Now if you need someone to complete instructions for a kit or a tutorial this is the lady to ask.  Kerry went to so much effort with her instructions - photos and hand drawn sketches with measurements added.  Fantastic.    The stitched front on this card was already in the kit for each of us completed by Kerry.  This card would be perfect for the current Unstampabelles challenge - Stitching.  ;-) A lot of fun to put together. Now this card I loved the colours and the wonderful way we attached the acetate. Tadah!.....isn't that so clever. To see the other ladies takes on these creations please visit the gallery at Craftmad here. Got to go and paint a couple of roller doors on the shed.  Have a good day everyone.

Today I want to share the creations I made using Jan's kits at our Craftmad meet up first weekend of October.  First off is this twisted easel card.  I love all the gold which is just card stock from the local newsagents.  We started with pearl card stock and rubbed on some distress inks.  Heavier on the edges and lighter towards the centre.  Then added all these wonderful dies. For this card we sandwiched a lattice die cut in between the card front and the white cardstock which had a circle cut out.  We then attached the blue circle and purposely put it off centre.  I like this effect and should have made it a little more off centre like Jan had done.  Jan loves flowers so we added a whole bunch.  Not my normal style as I am always thinking of what can go in the mail.  When my Mum saw this card she liked the fact that only three corners were embellished with the die cuts. This was a very smelly....but nice smelly activ...

Hi a really quick post as I must dash.   This is my halfway inspiration card for our Stitching challenge at Unstampabelles. The card front is from our sponsor Blue Edge Crafts .  These card fronts have all the pin holes ready for your stitching and there is such a huge selection to choose from. Please pop over to Unstampabelles and see what the other Designers came up with and while there add your entry.  Have a great day.

Hi everyone, thought I would share the projects I took down to the Craftmad Get Together. When making mine I had to keep in mind that I was travelling to Brisbane a week before the get together to catch up with family and doing a fair bit of train and bus catching so wanted to travel light. I have been visiting Qbee's Quest blog for a long time as Brenda does the most wonderful tutorials.  I love all her creations with Hershey Kisses and thought this was a great time to try one out.  At home I cut all the strips for the ladies and after a google search saw that Hershey Kisses could be bought in Brisbane.  So during the week before the meet up I searched high and low and no success.  Thought I found an alternative but when I got them back to the motel I discovered that Hershey Kisses are smaller than I imagined.  So we had extra chocolates to eat at the get together.  Kerry came to the rescue asking her husband to go in search for 'Kisses' at a To...

Well here we are - the ladies from Craftmad at the second annual meet up.  It was a first for me and I thoroughly loved it.  So nice after 8 years of belonging to this wonderful forum to meet the ladies in the flesh. We all met up in Brisbane at Kaye's place for the long weekend 5-7 October and crafted for three days.  Brilliant. Don't you just love our outfits.  Kaye and Ruth had been very busy making all our names tags, place markers, head bands, wristbands and providing cool glasses and black beads ready for our arrival.  The aprons were given to us by Mandy the owner of Craftmad .  In case you are curious that is me centre front row. This amazing collection is all that I created over the long weekend.  I still have about four kits that I did not get to that need putting together.  We all had to bring at least one project kit for everyone to do.  Majority of us brought two and some a couple more.  So we were kept busy...

Hi everyone, hope you had a great weekend.  We did, not that we went anywhere just achieved a couple of things.  Finally hung some artwork and photos on our newly painted walls.  Since we had painted the walls white we took this time to change what we have had hanging on our walls for the past 15 years.  There is so much available, it was a challenge narrowing down to just a few ideas.  We have gone with a couple of canvas of prints and a photo that my husband took put onto canvas.  Now just waiting for some of our photos that are framed with acrylic.  The first ever lounge that we owned has always been our favourite was recovered the week before last when I was in Brisbane.  So last week I bought some fabric and cushion inserts as I just can't come at paying $20 - $30 for a cushion.  I made four cushions $11ea....so happy.  Yes, I keep walking around our house at the moment with a smile as it is just like moving into a new place bu...

Hi everyone, I will be posting all about CRAFTMAD for the next month I think with all the creations I have made because of this wonderful forum.  So to start off I would like to share where we are up too with our latest Quilt Block swap......we are always keen to have new members of. At present there are three of us that swap to each other each month.  At the start of 2013 we decided to use Dusky Green, Dusky Blue and Dusky Yellow and have a different quilt block pattern each month. Each month I have been sewing the two swap blocks and one for myself.  The row on the left are my blocks, centre row are Cathy's . You can find more about Cathy's blocks on her blog and see other terrific blocks she has sewn.  The row on the right is from Mandy and you can see all of Mandy's blocks in the gallery at CRAFTMAD . August we swapped a 12" Twin Star Quilt Block. I really like how this one turned out. September we swapped a 12" Frosted Star Qu...

Hi everyone, I have returned from my week trip to Brisbane.  So much fun catching up with my sister and her family, our son and his girlfriend and all the wonderful ladies from Craftmad .  Yes, it was their second annual get together and this time I got to go.  We crafted, chatted, laughed, and ate lots of food for three days.  So now I have a few creations to share with you this month.  Just have to wait a couple of days before I can start doing that as, silly me, left my box of creations in the car that gave me a lift to the airport.  So now they are in the mail. The card above I created for our latest challenge at Unstampabelles .  We want to see stitching on your craft projects.  I started with Stampin Up cardstock Naturals White then attached a piece of dress pattern with stitching.  I used my sewing machine for all the stitching.  I then sewed some stems and leaves for the flower embellishments I found in my stash.  F...